SAG on Boss GT-1000

[afonsom98]

you can get a great clean marshall sound with the brit stack, if you lower the gain and increase the level. i always use IRs as well. I use those Reflex IRs by ML Sound Lab

 

[Eagle]

Compression and poor dynamics are the problem with most modellers. More than the sound. Also amplifying them with shitty class D $2 power amps.
Fr fr is also just never going to feel like a tube amp to play . Unless you go LXII and F12x200 and even then it’s still different.

 

[Sascha Franck]

you can get a great clean marshall sound with the brit stack, if you lower the gain and increase the level.

I tried that already. It's still compressing more than I like.

 

[afonsom98]

Compression and poor dynamics are the problem with most modellers. More than the sound. Also amplifying them with shitty class D $2 power amps.
Fr fr is also just never going to feel like a tube amp to play . Unless you go LXII and F12x200 and even then it’s still different.

i use the Fender FR-12. Feels good playing with it

 

[afonsom98]

I tried that already. It's still compressing more than I like.

even with the sag at -10?

 

[Sascha Franck]

even with the sag at -10?

Yes.

 

[afonsom98]

Yes.

strange, i feel its too loose at -10 ah ah ah

 

[Sascha Franck]

strange, i feel its too loose at -10 ah ah ah

What exactly are you refering to with "too loose"? I mean, if anything, dialing in sag never results in things to become tighter.

 

[afonsom98]

What exactly are you refering to with "too loose"? I mean, if anything, dialing in sag never results in things to become tighter.

like playing to a audio interface with nothing on but the original signal

 

[Sascha Franck]

like playing to a audio interface with nothing on but the original signal

And how is the "sag" parameter relevant for that?

 

[Jarick]

@Eagle it’s worth trying. I didn’t find anything magical with the feel and the amps sounded a lot like a distortion pedal running through EQ instead of an amp. But I could be completely wrong and you may love it.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I could actually like Boss' amps quite a bit if it wasn't for their compression.
Their cab section could be useful too, but once you load IRs, they always sound weak in comparison - which solely seems to be because of their output level being decreased. Pretty bad (let alone the IR loading process via MIDI is as awkward as it possibly gets). In addition, as pretty much each and every cab section elsewhere, it could really need at least a simple low/high cut EQ.

Seriously, the GTs could be fantastic units - just that the Boss development team seems to have lost each and every connection to the real world. In addition to the amp quality (or rather lack thereof), onboard editing is horrible, controller assignments are a complete 80s style mess and their software editors all suck so much it's tough to believe. Too bad as the hardware itself is just excellent.